Work Quotes - Page 15

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

File Under General Wisdom: You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner?

The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album - or song - you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have.

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

May you find new strength to accomplish your daily work.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Times will change for the better when you change.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

One thing I have learned from many years of watching my father is that some people, the best ones, are motivated more by the chance to prove themselves than by a command to serve. It is the work itself that calls them onward, especially if they believe they are the only ones who can do it.

The spirit of volunteerism is the spirit of service.